of an exemplary or edifying nature

Fred's would seem the least edifying.

“In the Penal Colony” conceives description as punishment and torture as edification and the ultimate critic as a needled harrow whose coup de grâce is a spike through the forehead

Dialectics had been brought to a standstill, though not in quite the edifying way Benjamin had hoped for

I am still thankful to him for that edifying outburst of anger

there is room for nothing in Stalinist culture except for edifying sermons, colorless life, and the catechism of propaganda

and had of them a great and edifying entertainment to the end of his days

Oprah Winfrey, who selected the novel for her remorselessly edifying book club

commonplace edifying maxims – for example, top bosses who claim to be ‘as demanding of others as of themselves’, thus transmuting the projections of their own desire, made master-desire, into a moral virtue, and expressing in a blind adage of conative egocentricity the wish that others make that desire fully their own.